[Dnsmasq-discuss] Monthly posting, man page

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Sat Mar 6 22:06:07 UTC 2021


On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 10:42:46PM +0100, Geert Stappers via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 08:12:30PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 08:34:26PM +0100, Monthly posting wrote:
> > > 
> > > The dnsmasq manual is feature complete. And known as hard to read for
> > > those who are new to it. But still do read it and try to understand it.
> > > Reading it again is known being effective for getting better
> > > understandig.
> > > 
> > I agree with much of what this posting said.  but, what/where is "The
> > dnsmasq manual"?  Do you mean the dnssmasq man page?
> > If so I think it would be a good idea if this was more explicit.
> 
> Will do.
> 
>  
> > Seeing a reference to "The dnsmasq manual" I'd expect to be able to
> > find it at https://dnsmasq.org/ and (as far as I know) it isn't there.
> 
> Quote from the paragraph (section?)  "Get code."
> 
>    The tarball includes this documentation, source, and manpage.
> 
> And `manpage` is a link to https://dnsmasq.org/docs/dnsmasq-man.html
> 
You're absolutely right! :-)  I'm not quite sure why I missed/ignored
that before.  I think it's just that I was expecting something more
like 'a manual' somwhere.

> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
Thanks for being so polite!

-- 
Chris Green



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